Lee's Last Campaign
‹
›
- Browse Category
We Begin at the EndLearn More - Choice Picks
- Top 100 Free Books
- Blog
- Recently Added
- Submit your eBook
By John C. Gorman
21 Feb, 2019
Then I returned to my command in the early part of March, after a long absence as a prisoner, I was greatly depressed at the sad state of feeling in which I found almost the whole army.—The buoyant, hopeful tone that animated them during the bloody
... Read more
Then I returned to my command in the early part of March, after a long absence as a prisoner, I was greatly depressed at the sad state of feeling in which I found almost the whole army.—The buoyant, hopeful tone that animated them during the bloody and heroic struggles in the Wilderness, and at Spotsylvania, was gone. The men who followed the immortal Jackson in his historic and eventful campaigns, and endured every fatigue and hardship without a murmur, in the full hope of eventual victory, were dejected, crestfallen and despondent. The wear and tear of a continuous campaign from the Rappahannoc to the James, and the disasters of the Valley struggle of the previous fall, together with the continuous marching and counter-marching on their present lines, without rest and with short rations, were telling upon their hardy natures. Longstreet’s veterans, who had followed their old leader from the ensanguined fields of Virginia to Chicamauga and East Tennessee, and who had again been forwarded to their old fields of conflict, were thinned in numbers, and had lost much of the fierce fire of pluck that characterised them of old. Less
- File size
- Print pages
- Publisher
- Publication date
- Language
- ISBN
- 44.81 KB
- 80
- Public Domain Books
- 2012-04-01
- English
- 978-1290211550
Author
Related Books
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker, Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on the Staff of His Excellency General Washington:
A Captain in the Ranks: A Romance of Affairs:
Mob Rule in New Orleans:
The Abolition of Slavery the Right of the Government Under the War Power:
First Across the Continent:
Great Epochs in American History: Voyages of Discovery and Early Explorations: 1000;:
.jpg){kind=logo}
The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776:
Woman on the American Frontier:
Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts:
Stories of Later American History:
Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II:
The story of Manhattan:
American Negro Slavery - a Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime:
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503:
Janice Meredith; A Story of the American Revolution:
.jpg){kind=logo}
A Historic Sketch, Lest We Forget Company 'E,' 26th Ohio Infantry in the War for the Union, 1861-65:
History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and His Trial by the Senate for High Crimes:
American Men of Action:
Lord Loveland Discovers America:
Diplomatic Days:
The Fireside Chats:
A Battery at Close Quarters: A Paper Read Before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, October 6, 1909:
The Beginner's American History:
The Treaty Held With the Indians of the Six Nations at Philadelphia, in July 1742:
The Red Record:
Join us and get access to all your favourite books
It’s free
